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A number of students and myself conducted a pilot project in the San Francisco County Jail as part of our MBA experience at San Francisco State University.Our goal was to teach inmates basic sewing skills and get them interested in sewing or entrepreneurship in general in the hopes of breaking the cycle of incarceration. The project was very successful and garnered a lot of attention from the press and the San Francisco sheriff.
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- 1. Sewing Pilot Project Leonor + Jonas + Keno San Francisco State University
- 3. Goal ●Workplace Development Skill ●Sewing Population ●Women Serving Time in SF County Jail Background
- 4. First Charter School To Operate Inside of a County Jail. The Five Keys: ● Education ● Employment ● Recovery ● Family ● Community Five Keys Charter School http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2014/03/04/charter-school-in-sf-jails-honored-with-award/
- 5. Session Overview Prior Curriculum Objective Cut Fabric Assemble Classroom Monday Session Student Count Rec’d Lesson Overview Recap Demo Activity Stations Dismissal Post Machine Inventory Materials Inventory Internal Debrief
- 6. Fulfilling demand for sewers The vicious cycle of the prison system Problem Solving
- 7. Pendulum of Globalization has swung back Localized production is coming back Skills have been lost - no workforce Problem: Lack of Sewers
- 8. Vicious cycle US prison population 1.6 Million in 2013 5 times higher than the world average Affects minorities disproportionately Problem: Prison System
- 9. Required a lot of planning Creating curriculums Walkthroughs Background checks Safety classes IDs Restricted materials Obstacles
- 10. Solutions Spark What Idea from a need How Historical Relevance Why Workforce Development Seek What Development Market & System How Initiative through Inmates Why Sustainable Survival Team What San Francisco County Jail How 5 Keys Charter School Why Education + Employment + Recovery = Community
- 11. San Francisco Sewing Pilot Project Seek Spark Team
- 12. Should the sewing program be implementing as an official program? Moving Forward
- 13. FIN THANK YOU
Editor's Notes
- Some background on the Sewing Pilot Program. The program started as an idea to teach sewing, a valuable skill, at the city jail as a form of workforce development. There is a current demand for skilled sewers in San Francisco and a need for people who are exiting jail to have a marketable skill so that they can rejoin the workforce. Jonas will talk more about the problem a little later. The pilot program is six weeks long and takes place every Monday for two hours at the women’s county jail in San Francisco. Although some women have attended every class, we do not know until the day of who or even how many people will be participating in the class.
- The Sewing Pilot Program was incorporated into Five Keys Charter School’s geometry class. A little bit about 5 keys. 5 keys was created by the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department in 2003 as the first charter school in the United States to operate inside of a correctional facility and offers participants the opportunity to earn their high school diploma. The goals of 5 keys are to increase education levels and re engage disenfranchised individuals in the educational system, to reduce recidivism, to enable students to gain practical work skills, and to increase self esteem and confidence. The 5 keys that they have identified to achieve their goals are education, employment, recovery, family, and community.
- Each week has gone a little differently, but generally how the class works is prior to class Russell creates the day’s curriculum and Keno, Jonas, and I cut the fabric, which are used table cloths that might have otherwise ended up in landfills. We have to pre-cut the fabric since we aren’t allowed scissors in the jail. We go into a room and set up three sewing machine stations and an educational station with information about different textiles and the parts of sewing machines. An inventory of the removable parts of the sewing machines and the materials we bring in before and after each class was required by the sheriff’s office to prevent and catch theft of potential weapons. During the class, typically Russell would begin with a demonstration of how to use the machine and how to sew the day’s final product. After the demonstration the women would measure seam allowance, take turns on the machines and several would have sewn a bag by the end of the class. If they didn’t finish the bag and would be returning, they continued where they left off in the next class. With some instruction and with practice the women in the pilot program have really worked to develop their skills as sewers.
- We are going to conclude our presentation by asking if our pilot program should be implemented as an official program. Provided solutions are implemented to address the problems and obstacles that we have identified, then, yes, this program has been a valuable and we think successful program. The women who have participated probably haven’t developed the skills necessary to find employment, but they have started that process and many have become engaged and feel a sense of pride in what they are capable of accomplishing. Seeds have been planted and that is the first step.